† creancer Obs.
Forms: 4 creaunsour, -sure, creansure, 4–6 creauncer, creaunser, 5 creancer, -syr, 6 -ser, -sier, 7 -sour, -sor.
[ME. creaunsour, in Anglo-F. creanceour, a. OF. creanceor, f. creancer: see prec. and -or. The form in -er may repr. F. créancier (12th c. in Littré) from creance, corresp. to late L. credentiārius.]
1. A creditor.
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Kings iv. 1 A creansure cume, that he take my two sonys to seruen to hym. ― Prov. xxix. 13. c 1460 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. v. 118 His creauncers shul alway grucche for lake of thair paymente. 1607 J. Cowell Interpr., Creansour..signifieth him that trusteth another with any debt. 1708 Termes de la Ley 196 Creansor or Creditor. |
2. One entrusted with the charge of another; a guardian, tutor: esp. at school or college. (In med.L. creditor: cf. Du Cange.)
[Statuta Aularia (Bodley MS.), Unusquisque scolaris manens sub magistro, tutore, aut creditor.]
| 1478 Paston Lett. No. 824 III. 237 My creansyr Mayster Thomas [at Eton]..praythe yow to sende hym sum mony for my comons. c 1500 G. Vernon in Hist. MSS. Comm. I. 16 Mr. Grove, Pryncipall of Mawdelen Hall, the which is creanser unto me and my brothir. 1525 St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 329 The Busshop of Rosse..is creauncer and counsaillour to the saide Erle. 1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. Gal. 13 The heyre..vnder creansers & gouernours. [1853 Bloxam Register Magd. Coll. I. 59 ‘It appears about this time’ viz. 1660 ‘there was a College order that the choristers etc. should have Cransiers.’] |